- Forum >
- Topic: German >
- "Guten Morgen, Spinne, auf Wi…
"Guten Morgen, Spinne, auf Wiedersehen, Fliege!"
Translation:Good morning, spider, goodbye, fly!
77 Comments
If you think about it, this one is quite dark. The narrator is greeting a spider as she devours her morning meal, a fly, whom you so unceremoniously dismiss with a quick "auf Wiedersehen!" as if that fly were nothing compared to the spider.
I just took it to mean that spiders will get rid of flies for you, not that the spider was currently eating a fly. Of course, if I did see a spider eating a fly, I'd think it was pretty cool, not dark.
I came here just comment this. It's hilariously dark, greeting the spider and bidding the fly farewell lol
Warum sind Fliegen Böse? Was haben sie dir angetan dass du so dermaßen darüber denkst?(kein hate nur eine Frage)
1003
Sie essen wortwörtlich Scheiße, und fliegen um mein Essen herum. Das ist ickilig, und sie müssen dafür sterben.
Idk why but your english is so fancy my 2 brain cells can't really understand this
Duolingo is getting fun!! I mean, it was fun before but I'm loving all the references and sayings.
uhm. That was weird, and it confirmed something for certain that I thought I have been noticing in a number of exercises in duolingo: Duo told me I got the speaking exercise right... before I finished speaking!
I thought, in the past, that maybe I was just imagining this, that perhaps the software is SO fast that it was able to determine a result in such tight time. But here, I was just getting ready to say "fliege" (at the end of this exercise), and it was already popping up an answer -- that I was right!
I've also noticed that sometimes Duo seems to have trouble hearing me. A previous exercise in this set asked me to say "das Pferd" and I was pretty sure I said it, but only "das" changed to green; Pferd remained red.
And, of course, as others have noticed, sometimes Duo changes the word color to green (or red) out of order, or not at all. This is confusing, because I'd hope that this mechanism would tell me, somewhat accurately, which words I was saying correctly.
I appreciate that the people at Duo are working hard on this system, and this is ONLY feedback. I still love Duo, and I thank you for it!
I once sneezed and was marked correct. I turned speaking exercises off after that!
Hey there, for right pronunciation exercises try "the software of the ancient stone", it's not for free but you can see the wave graphic of your pronunciation compared with the right one. It's actually really "tedious" to get a right answer until you... really pronunciate well. It helped me a lot with English. Duo it's very good to take daily lessons and learn sentences quickly but not for pronunciation (yet?). Good luck!
did you.. did you just call Rosetta Stone "The Software of the Ancient Stone?" that is amazing
I spoke all the words in the completely wrong order; got all of them correct.
Nope, Duolingo often doesn't accept answers that reflect linguistic differences from the language you are learning. In English, "bye" and "goodbye" aren't really interpreted differently. They're interchangeable. The same is true in German with interchangeability, however the latter is recognized as more polite and better for strangers rather than people you know. There's more of a distinction that is recognized. At least on Duolingo, they don't usually allow the same kind of flexibility as in English. To be on the safe side, use "tschüss" for a simple "bye" and "auf Wiedersehen" for "goodbye. Hope that helps and auf Wiedersehen! ;)
In many other languages "Bye" and "Goodbye" are not the same thing. "Goodbye" is often way more formal an polite, while "Bye" is something simple you say to your friends
when you start talking to the insects in your house due to lack of human conversation during corona virus lockdown
I love spiders. I have a big one in my backyard :) Don't know where the web is though..
The first "cheerful" and "weird" German sentence Ive encountered in Duolingo.
I don't understand why I haven't had any speaking exercises, or listening to a german audio, then writing what it said, or translating english to german in writing. It's been a while since I've had them!
Maybe check your settings and see if you have the "Microphone" and "Speaker" sections turned on.
More like Auf Wiedersehen, Spinne, Auf Wiedersehen, Fliege! Klein Spinne, danke.
"bis später" is the term used for "see you later." "auf Wiedersehen" is really for "Goodbye", it's not interchangeable.
I sometimes struggle to distinguish between Duo having fun with an odd phrase... and Duo teaching an idiom.
Like, I can see this meaning you're strengthening your resolve, saying goodbye to your timidity, weakness, and/or fear to become more "spider-like." Strong, aggressive, etc. Kind of a more PG (and clever) "nut up"/ "let's do this"... something you say after you put on your butt-kicking boots or stilettos.
Is this a German idiom, or just fun and random?
Is this a German idiom, or just fun and random?
Just fun and random.
Wow, this just got dark. Morning, Spider. Bye, fly. I'm learning and loving the vibes
It doesn't. Bis später - See you later. Auf Widersehen is a Goodbye, and Goodbye only
- 255
It seems like this scenario. The sister went to his brother room to greet him but then saw a spider in his room, she did not wanted to stay, said goodbye, turned over and then there was a fly right in front of her face, and then she screamed, fly!
you are glad the spider is here and the fly is about to die because flies are annoying
If you want dark try Latin! Where we collect bone and dolls, throw fish on the ground, hit the drunk cook and destroy the angry parrots with fire (cause they're always drunk.) The comment section is the best, both helpful and humorous.
You ask for writing down in German. If i do. It gives the translation in English. If i give the english version, it ask for german. So i cant get further...
I thought it was a saying and I was googling this to see what Germans meant by it, but if it wasn’t a saying I just took it as sometimes you say good morning to someone and sometimes you say good bye to someone else, not that the spider was eating the fly. I think it is amazing where our minds go depending where our minds usually are. I haven’t eating animals in 27 years so the idea of someone eating someone else didn’t even cross my mind
- 255
Dieser Vegetarier mag diese Spinne nicht. Just kidding.
My mind says these are the nicknames, a girl is calling her ex fly because he never stayed stable in the relationship. And the girl is calling her current boyfriend spider, spider is so stable, can stay at one place for a very long time. He is the right choice for her. Spider wins the heart.
Sort of in Yoda’s way of speaking I would say:
You see dark, when your mind dark is
And I would add
„Be the light, to the light see
✨
Almost all punctuation is ignored. As far as I know, Duolingo only insists on "double quotes" (or which there aren't any in this sentence) and on apostrophes (which mostly act more like a letter than a punctuation mark anyway).
If your sentence was marked wrong, it was almost certainly not because of missing punctuation.
Do you have a screenshot of your rejected answer?
